Lancaster Country Day School

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Lancaster Country Day School
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'"Fax mentis et cordis incendium gloriae"
(The spark that kindles the mind and heart illuminates a lifetime.)[1]
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
United States
Information
Type Private, secular, coeducational college prep school
Established 1908
Head of School Steven D. Lisk[2]
Enrollment 625 (PK-12)[3]
Average class size 14 students[4]
Student to teacher ratio 8:1[4]
Campus Suburban, 26 acres
Color(s)      Maroon
     Gray
Athletics Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association
Mascot Cougar
Website http://lancastercountryday.org/

Lancaster Country Day School (LCDS) is a private, secular, coeducational college preparatory school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It serves 625 students in preschool through twelfth grade.[3][4] All grades are housed under one roof.

History

Founding

The school was founded in 1908 as a girls' school known as The Shippen School for Girls, the result of a merger between Lancaster College and Miss Stahr's School.[5] In 1943, with the closing of nearby Franklin and Marshall Academy for Boys, the Shippen School changed its charter to become coeducational and adopted its current name. In 1949, it moved to its current location on Hamilton Road.[6]

Headmasters

  • Eleanor Fitzpatrick, Headmaster 1943-1945[7]
  • Rebecca Walton Griest, Headmaster 1945-1946[7]
  • Robert Holt Iglehart, Headmaster 1946-1949[7]
  • John L. Byerly, Headmaster 1949-1962[7]
  • Carl Denlinger, Headmaster 1962[7]
  • Nathaniel Saltonstall II, Headmaster 1962-1965[7]
  • John Jarvis, Headmaster 1965-1990.[6][7][8]
  • Richard Johnson, Headmaster 1991-1999[7][9]
  • Mike Mersky, Headmaster 1999-2007.[7][9]
  • Daphna Ben-Chaim, Interim Headmaster 2007-2008[7][9][10]
  • Steven D. Lisk, Headmaster 2008–Present[4][7]

Academics

LCDS' class size averages 14 students.[4] The LCDS lower school program (preschool through fifth grade)[4] includes skill-based grouping for math and reading instruction, and emphasizes art, music and physical education in parallel with academics. Spanish language instruction begins in preschool.[11] In the middle school (grades six to eight),[4] French is offered, and students are encouraged to participate in the fine and performing arts programs.[12] In the upper school, Advanced Placement courses are offered in 11 subjects,[13] and the foreign languages taught are French, Latin, Chinese, and Spanish.[13] The school reports a 100% acceptance rate to four year colleges/universities by its graduating seniors.[4]

The school provides iPads to students from eighth to twelfth grade. The school retains the ability to look at all information on every iPad and to remotely disable certain features. The eighth grade receives iPads without App Stores and with limited Safari functionality.[14]

Extracurricular Activities

Since 1980, LCDS has regularly sent senior students to The Hague for International Model United Nations conferences. In 2009 it was one of just six U.S. schools invited to participate in this annual program.[13][15]

Athletics

LCDS competes in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association.[4] The school sponsors the following sports:[16]

Fall

Winter

Spring

It has a cooperative agreement with the School District of Lancaster where LCDS students can participate in football, volleyball, bowling, cross country, swimming, track and field, and wrestling for McCaskey.[4] The school mascot is a cougar, and the school colors are maroon and grey.

Teams from the school have competed for districts and states. The girls basketball team have made it to the district finals as well as the boys soccer team. The squash team has gone to nationals two years in a row. There is a co-op with Lancaster Catholic and McCaskey so their students can play lacrosse in the LCDS program.[4]

Campus

Current Layout

Lancaster Country Day School sits on 26 acres of land in the School Lane Hills neighborhood at 725 Hamilton Road.[17] The property was bought by Lancaster Country Day School in 1949. The academic section of the school consists of three wings: One wing houses the Lower School, constructed in two phases in the 1950s and 1960s; another wing houses the Science Department, constructed in 1960; the third wing houses the Upper School and dining commons as well as several conference rooms, constructed in 2005. The school partners with a local tennis club to allow for cooperative use of tennis courts on-campus. Additionally, the school owns space enough for around 5 fields, whether it be soccer, field hockey, or lacrosse. A theatre, constructed in 1971, sits between the Science Wing and the newer Upper School wing. The school has two gymnasiums, one built in 1975 and the other built in 1992.[6]

Expansion Plans

In January 2015, the school's plan to proceed with a construction project estimated to cost around $21 million received zoning approval. The expansion plan received attention from some neighbors, as the new main entrance and parking lots were considered possibly disruptive.[18] Because the school's Board of Trustees sought a more financially feasible option, the governing board opted for a cheaper plan, with the potential to have several phases. The first approved phase includes renovation of academic spaces including those in the Lower School; the construction of a physical education center including squash courts, locker rooms, a fitness center and training room; the installation of air conditioning in the Lower School, art rooms and science wing; expanded parking; and a new entrance on President Avenue.[19] Previous plans to construct a new theatre and rebuild the Lower School and Science Wing were postponed, and exactly what will be renovated in the 2016-2017 school year is still being determined. On January 5, 2016, the school did receive approval from Manheim Township to renovate the theater during a second construction phase, the timing of which is still to be determined.[1] Some students, faculty, and staff feel the Board is neglecting parts of the school that are badly in need of repair, and the school administration invited neighbors and parents to attend multiple discussions regarding the new expansion.[20] Officially, the school is scheduled to begin construction as soon as the summer of 2016.[citation needed]

Community Outreach

  • Beginning in the summer of 2015, Lancaster Country School began offering the national Horizons program to low-income elementary school students from the School District of Lancaster.[21][22] Horizons partners with independent schools and colleges to help students keep pace with their peers by minimizing the amount of information they forget during summer vacation.[23]
  • Country Day's work with Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity began in 2001 and continues to grow, with the school winning Habitat's 2013 Humanitarian of The Year Award, presented in a celebration dinner on World Habitat Day.[24]
  • In addition to time Upper Schoolers spend volunteering at the center, the boys’ lacrosse team recently raised more than $1,000 for Schreiber Pediatric Center in Lancaster.[24]
  • The Bangla-Dash fundraiser and race benefiting The Carter Academy in Bangladesh was conceived and implemented by the class of ’17.[24]

Notable Alumni

  • Alice Rebecca Appenzeller 1915 — First American born in Korea and President of Ewha College (1922-1939)[25][26]
  • Victoria Gardner Coates 1986 — University of Pennsylvania art history professor and national security adviser for Senator Ted Cruz[27]
  • Michael Delbert 1992 — Journalist and author[28]
  • Mark Ibold 1980 — Rock musician (bass guitarist), formerly of Pavement and currently Sonic Youth
  • Carla Kihlstedt 1989 — Musician (violinist, vocalist)
  • Rya Kihlstedt 1987 — Actress: Nashville, Dexter
  • Andrew J. Porter 1990 — Author
  • Mike Still 1999 — Artistic Director of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Los Angeles[29]


References

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